Occupation Indian troops killed five suspected Mujahideen in a fierce gunbattle in occupied Kashmir after they (Mujahideen) barricaded themselves inside a mosque, an army official said on Wednesday.
The Mujahideen fled to the mosque after fighting began when soldiers surrounded Khilangund village in southern Pulwama district early Wednesday, following a tip off that suspected Mujahideen were sheltering there.
"We have killed all the five militants who barricaded themselves inside the mosque," Occupation army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel V K Batra said. "The mosque is intact."
Meanwhile, suspected freedom fighters have shot dead a policeman and an official of the puppet regime in Indian occupied Kashmir.
Policeman Noorul Amin was shot dead overnight outside his home in the village of Litter in southern Pulwama district, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.
"Gunmen barged into his house, brought him out and shot him dead in cold blood," the spokesman said.
Nazir Ahmed, an official of Peoples Democratic Party, was shot dead late Tuesday inside his house in the Kangan area, 40kms Northeast of Srinagar, police said.